Re: "proving" a user received an email (good gosh)

From: Faux_Pseudo (Faux_Pseudo@yahoo.comERCIAL)
Date: 06/26/02 

From: Faux_Pseudo <Faux_Pseudo@yahoo.comERCIAL>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:19:07 GMT

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- --(Once apon a time, in comp.security.unix,)--
                --(Bruno Wolff III said it like only they can.)--
> It someone really needs a confirmation that the message was read by a human,
> it should ask for a confirmation in the body of the message.

Bad idea. Any user where confirmation is an issue is a user who knows
enough to not confirm delivery of the message. What whould be better
is a "X-Lieing-User: yes" header that the mail client or MTA can check
and find out if the message did get properly routed and then the mail
client can look for the header and at the top of the email put a
little "In opening this mail a notification was sent to the sender"

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